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The 6 best road trips in Panama
04.12.2023 - 12:25 / lonelyplanet.com
Few destinations can boast a variety of outstanding geographical diversity as Panama.
Driving here is less about cruising through wide-open spaces and more about taking winding roads to hidden, jungle-shrouded enclaves. On an isthmus otherwise poorly served by public transport, having your own car means easy (or at least easier) access to a slew of memorable sites.
With your own wheels, it's possible to have breakfast by the Pacific Ocean and lunch by the Caribbean Sea. Or you can spend your morning lolling on sugar-white beaches and your afternoon scaling rugged mountain peaks.
Equally, you can experience the urban bustle of the capital and the teeming wilds of the rainforest all on the same day. The opportunity for adventure is endless.
These are the six best road trips in Panama – just to get you started.
Panama City to David; 448 km (278 miles)
Running east-west through Panama’s Pacific lowlands, the Panamericana (or Pan-American Highway) is the nation’s principal transport artery – a 500-km-long (310 miles) much-used paved road connecting the capital with el interior and, eventually, the international border with Costa Rica.
Most travelers tackle the route in a single bound with a non-stop bus from Panama City to David (7-9 hours), but doing this means missing out on Panama’s central provinces. Take two weeks instead.
West of the capital, the Panamericana skirts a string of low-key beach towns with scorching salt-and-pepper sands. They start with Punta Chame (not to be confused with the village of Chame), a windswept headland with superb kitesurfing from December to May.
Continuing west, you’ll pass the high-rise condos and manicured golf course of Playa Coronado before hitting the surf towns of El Palmar and Rio Mar, the fishing village of Santa Clara and the hamlet of Farallón.
From here, it’s worth taking a one to three-day detour north to El Valle, a refreshing highland spa nestled among brooding peaks.
From Santiago, the capital of Veraguas, you can veer north into the mountains and spend a few days exploring the arresting walking country around Santa Fe.
Or you can take an older, poorly maintained highway southwest, where a turn just before Soná leads to Santa Catalina, a legendary surf town pounded by Hawaiian-style waves. From there, it’s just a short boat ride to Coiba Island and its world-class marine park.
West of Soná, the old highway re-joins the Panamericana at the checkpoint of Guabalá in the Chiriquí Province. The scenery shifts to darker and greener tones as the highway skirts the rugged foothills of Cordillera Central.
To the north, the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé is a semi-autonomous Indigenous territory offering hikes and cultural exchanges from the community of Soloy.
To the south, the
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